Comments on Jeff McKenna's Agile Development Blog

Jeff McKenna recently started the Agile Development Blog to share his thoughts on Agile development and the broader issues of team dynamics that go beyond Agile and software. Jeff is an Agile evangelist for Serena Software and long time participant in Agile and preceding modes of software development. As the tagline states, “In this blog we explore topics, issues, questions and puzzles regarding Agile Software Development as it is applied in the Enterprise. A particular focus is the impact on the people doing the work, the people specifying the work and the people depending on the work.” So the blog is more about the people side of software development than the technical side.

Here is video interview between Jeff and Ward Cunnigham, wiki inventor. Jeff worked with Ward in the late 1980's at Tektronix in Oregon. They were working on Smalltalk and working on Patterns and the beginnings of the development style now known as Agile.

I am working with Jeff on the blog (see below for more on this) and here is an interview I did with him on Achieving Immediate and Continuous Bug Fixes in Agile Development. Jeff had mentioned earlier how a team he was on was able to do away with spending noticeable time prioritizing and dealing with long lists of bugs. Instead, they detected and fixed them right away. So this post interview is a more in-depth exploration on how that occurred.

Jeff will also cover events he attends such as the recent Scrum Gathering in Orlando. Here is a review of Amr Elssamadisy's new book Agile Adoption Patterns and here are his thoughts on whether Agile development requires UML.

As a disclosure, I am engaged to provide a partner and outside perspective to the discussions. Since this blog is about conversations, we will be starting many of these conversations between ourselves. Operating under the model of two heads being better than one, at times I may interview Jeff, challenge what he presents, or act as a sounding board on discussions. In some cases I may contribute posts to offer another perspective. However, we will be clear on the authorship on all posts and list whether it is post by Jeff, me, or a combined effort. Here is one of mine, Agile Myth Busters at Serena Tag 2008.

You can see the author or authors as a category at the bottom of each post and browse the posts in each category in our right side bar. We also do conversations between the two of us and they are categorized as interviews such as the one mentioned above and Conducting Release Retrospectives in Agile Development. The release retrospectives discussion reminded me a bit of Nancy Dixon’s work. e.g., Trust Versus Psychological Safety. We see this as an opportunity to experiment with different models of conversation and blog collaboration in a transparent manner. We plan to have fun and hope it is contagious.

I think this will be an important resource for Agile development and I am very pleased to be part of this effort. I hope you stop by and take a look. We welcome your input.

Comments

[Oleg]

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